Machine for making wire-glass.



A. MACHINE F0 APPLIOA 'J. BALDWIN;

R MAKING WIRE TION FILED DBO. 1 190 aywa ul'oz or fabric embedded therein, it has been cusnovel way, at the same time embodying ccruseful Improvementsin Machines for Making Wire-Glass, of which the following is a specisheet, ap ly to such sheet (usually upon the spread a second layer of molten glass on the plolyed, in case of operation.

UNITED s'rn'rns PATENT oFF'IoE.

ARTHUR J. BALDWIN, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

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Patented' March 19, 1967.

' Application filed December 1, l9l)4- Serial No. 234,9 80- To all whom it may concern: l I Be it known that I, ARTH R J. BALDWIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at East New Jersey, have invented certain new and i fication, reference being bad to the drawings accompanying and forming part of the same.

In the manufacture of wire-glass, or glass in the form of sheets with a wire netting tomary to roll a batch of molten glass into a surface t ereof) a wire fabric, and then composite. sheet so formed. These operations, it has been found, must be carried on progressively and substantially simultaneously in order to produce a commercial prodnet; but difficulty has been encountered in devising machines for carrying out the process economically and easily. It has been usual to em loy for the purpose a rolling bed I or table 'and a series of rolls, generally two or three in number, to spread the batches of plass and to apply the wire fabric to the first ayer or sheet and embed it in the surface of the same.

My present invention resides in a machine for accomplishing the same result, but in a i E i l tain advantages over those heretofore cinf 11 ca g out my invention I employ the usual tab e'or bed, above which I arrange a 4 system of rolls, generally two in number, one

, the -saim'e and the roll which cooperates as therolls revolve to form the glass sheet is to say in that surface of the sheet which is moves longitudinall and has depositedon it of the same-cooperating with the table and the other cooperating with the lirst mvntioned. Between the rolls I deposita batch the wire fabric embedded in its lower .sur,-

ofmolten' glass, which is thereby formed into a sheet an delivered upon the table between therewith. At the same time I pass over the other roller a sheet of wire fabric, which embedded in the surface of the samethat is tower the rolling-table. The table itself a batch oimolten g ass, which is thereby carried against the composite sheet ofglass and ric as the same issues move in the same direction the batch of glass thereon is formed into a sheet by the second 'ried by the same.

,trated the preferred er'nbodimentofthe invention broadly described above, inwhich is shown a side elevation of the same.

A designates a bed or table, generallysimilar to those nowi'n use in the manufacture of wire-glass and capable of longitudinal movement, asin the direction of the arrow.

B and C are coacting rolls, the formerbeing preferably the lar er, mounted above the I ta le and rotated in t e directions shown-by the arrows at the same peripheral speed" as the lineal speed of the table. The former 7-5 roll is separated from the table by a sp de equal to the desired thickness of the finished article, and the second is elevated& considerably greater distancev therefrom.

In usin the machine a strip of wire D is intro uced between the rolls B and 0, in contact with the latter, and a batch of molten glass ormetal E is deposited upon and between the rolls. The revolving rollers then roll the glass out into a sheet, with the wire-netting embedded in the surface ofthe same. At the proper place to] meet the (10-, scending sheet as the table moves'forward there is deposited on the latter a batch of molten metal, as shown in dotted lines at F. As the ,table advances the mass F becomes banked u against the rolls B and C. The continue movement of the table and the coolperating roll B forms-the batch F into a s icet under the sheet batch E, which, it will be remembered, has

face. The operation of forming the two layersthus goes on progressively, andLthctwo are united under the roll B. 7 1'0:

, It will thus be seen that the machine 0on5.

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produced from the l i 0001, resulting in the formation of such a, skin reduce it to the same consistency es the rest of the sheet. This elimination if {my 130881-- ble skin between the two layers of glass int-- sures a 'pesitive and perfect uniting of the same, making a finished sheet '05 WEF-gi8SS which is A seticelly homogeneous, and thus well able to withstand sho'eks 01 blews- Whetle mis-- r L In e, msnhme for the nienufscture'ofwire glass, the enmbinetienwith' s meving table,

of s roll spaced therefiom e'ciistan ee equel tn the thickness of the finished sheet of wireglnss, and a second roll over which it sheet of W'lI'B l BbYlC is passed in Contact therewith, seid roll being out of direct operative relation to the table and spaced from the firstmientioned roll nv distance e( ual to substantially half the thickness of the finished sheet of wire glass; hoth' rolls being adapted to revolve at the same peripheral speed as the lineal speed of the table, as set foith.

"ARTHUR J. BALDWIN. Witnesses HENRY SGHRENHERR,

D. DEAN. 

